[kabar]

I think what will happen instead is that the mandate will get thrown out, but the rest will remain with nothing to pay for it. This will be really bad for Democrats. They will lose a critical revenue stream for the bill with no way to make it up. The cost of the program will explode along with the corresponding federal deficits.

If the mandate is struck down, Obamacare will collapse like a house of cards. It will be unsustainable.

[USNBandit]

So it will go on the rest of the pile of unsustainable entitlements.

[Monorprise]

That is not necessarily true, Maryland has outlawed denying coverage for preconditions and its health insurance industry still persist.

What will happen is the cost of health insurance will continue to rise, at a faster rate. More and more people & business will thus be pushed out of the health insurance market and into the out of pocket market thus becoming price selectors.

The price selectors will finally start driving competition for cheaper cost effective health services which will in turn both control & reduce health care costs.

Ultimately a balance must be found, where a competencies large share of the population is effectively uninsured, and thus effectively enchanged in price selection in the health care market.

In the end the problem with the healthcare system is the tragaty of the commons.

Conservatives MUST push this point!

You can’t solve a problem created by too few people having any need to take responsibly for their health care choices, by having even fewer people in that position of responsibly. You can only make it worse as Obamacare has done.